Can I eat rock sugar during confinement?

I believe many people know that there are many taboos for women during the confinement period, especially in terms of diet and daily life, and they must do a good job of conditioning. Rock sugar is a common food and is used in making many desserts or stewing soups. So, can you eat rock sugar during confinement? The following will introduce the relevant knowledge in detail.

1. Can a woman who has just given birth eat rock sugar?

Can be eaten. Postpartum women can eat rock sugar to replenish their qi and supplement the sugar in their bodies. However, you should not eat too much to prevent tooth decay and excessive energy intake.

2. Basic Introduction

Rock sugar is a crystallized product of granulated sugar. It comes in colors such as white, slightly yellow, slightly red, and dark red, and its crystals are like ice, hence the name rock sugar. China already had production during the Han Dynasty. Transparent rock sugar is of the best quality, pure, with few impurities and a sweet taste. Translucent rock sugar is second best. It can be used as medicine or eaten as candy. Sugar making was first invented in China. As early as more than 3,000 years ago, there were records of China using grains to make maltose. According to the records in "Qimin Yaoshu", my country had already produced cane sugar and rock sugar during the Later Han Dynasty. During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, China introduced the sugar-making method from India, improved the process, and the quality of sugar cane improved.

3. Characteristics and efficacy

Rock sugar is a crystallized product of granulated sugar. Rock sugar can increase sweetness, neutralize excess acidity, and has the effect of removing heat.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that rock sugar is sweet in taste, neutral in nature, and enters the lung and spleen meridians; it has the effects of tonifying the middle and replenishing qi, harmonizing the stomach and moistening the lungs; rock sugar nourishes yin and produces body fluid, moistens the lungs and relieves coughs, and has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on dry coughs, dry coughs without sputum, and sputum with blood; it is used for cough and asthma caused by dry lungs, lung deficiency, wind-cold and fatigue, malaria in children, lockjaw dysentery, mouth ulcers, and toothache caused by wind and fire.

4. Purchase Guide

Look: Good quality rock sugar is uniformly white or yellow, translucent, has a crystalline luster, and has no obvious impurities.

Smell: Rock sugar has a sweet fragrance when you smell it, without any strange smell.

Taste: Rock sugar is pure and sweet, with no peculiar smell or taste.

Touch: When you touch it with dry hands, there will be no sugar particles on your hands. It is loose, which means it has low water content, is not easy to deteriorate, and is easy to preserve.

5. Eating tips

Rock sugar can be cooked with snow pear, mung bean, etc. for better effect.

Diabetics should not eat rock sugar.

Since rock sugar easily absorbs water and becomes damp, it should be placed in a cool and ventilated place. If the rock sugar is found to be damp, it can be blown dry with an electric fan or exposed to the sun until it is dry. If the surface of the rock sugar is found to be melted (i.e. it is sticky), it is best not to eat it because it is inconvenient to handle at home and easily breeds bacteria.